Money Can Buy You Happiness

Okay, so we all know that money can't buy us love (thanks, Beatles), but new research shows that it can buy us happiness. (And not just because it allows us to score the incredible new Marc Jacobs bag.)

The study, which was conducted by a happiness expert and published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, looked at data from the first Gallup World Poll to determine how money affects people's well-being on a global scale. The results show that increasing our income can actually make us happier.

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According to the findings, when people's incomes increased, their evaluations of their lives improved and their outlooks became more positive. More wealth also lead to people feeling more optimistic.

But while in an increase in cash flow can make us feel better about our lives, constantly being disappointed that we don't have even more money has the opposite effect.

So, be grateful for what you've got and, when it comes time to ask the boss for a raise, don't be shy. After all, happier employees make better employees, right?